School bus crash in Warren County injures three, according to emergency radio

Three people were reported injured in a head-on collision this afternoon between a car and a school bus carrying 24 students, according to New Jersey State Police.

One student suffered a minor head injury. Also injured were bus driver Linda Hudecek, 53, of Phillipsburg, and 20-year-old Nicholas Chrisafis, of Washington, the driver of the black Saturn that collided with the bus.

Hudecek and Chrisafis were taken to Warren Hospital for minor injuries, according to state police.

The crash was reported at 3:28 p.m. at 381 Harmony Brass Castle Road in Harmony Township. The bus was transporting students from Harmony Township School, which is a kindergarten through eighth-grade school, the father of a student said at the scene of the wreck.

First responders called for mutual aid from neighboring municipalities because of the number of children who needed to be checked for injuries. Emergency personnel escorted the students to a safe location where they could be picked up by parents.

Members of the Harmony Township Board of Education were at the wreck and helped release children to their parents, according to state police. The bus was inoperable, police said.

Township resident Bruce Unangst was driving behind the bus, in which his son was riding, when the wreck occurred. What seemed like "just a normal ride" quickly went haywire when the car appeared suddenly, he said.